Table 2. Parameters for the generation of synthetic sequence data.

	Basic	3′UTR	Decoy
Sequence background	Uniform, zeroth-order MC	Human 3′UTR	Uniform, zeroth-order MC
Sequence length [nt]	20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000	20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000	100
Sequence number	100, 1000, 10 000	100, 1000, 10 000	10 000
Motif length [nt]	8	8	8
Implanted signal motifs per sequence	0 or 1	0 or 1	0 or 1
Signal motif implantation probability [%]	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100	10
Signal motif IC [bit]	0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16	0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16	0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16
Implanted decoy motifs per sequence	0	0	0 or 1
Decoy motif implantation probability [%]	0	0	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100
Decoy motif IC [bit]	NA	NA	0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16
Strandedness	Single-stranded	Single-stranded	Single-stranded
Total experiments	1134	1134	567

MC = Markov chain; IC = information content.